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Events in the year
1955 in
Belgium
.
Incumbents
[
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]
Monarch
–
Baudouin
[
1
]
Prime Minister
–
Achille Van Acker
Events
[
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]
A demonstration in Antwerp against the School Law
9 February – Joint letter from the Belgian bishops calling on the government to revise its education policy.
[
2
]
26 March – Mass demonstration in Brussels
against Socialist–Liberal education bill
.
[
3
]
3 April – International friendly between the Dutch and Belgian national football teams in the Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam.
16 April –
Belgian Chamber of Translators and Interpreters
is founded.
[
4
]
6 May – Paris Protocol transforming the
Brussels Pact
into the
Western European Union
comes into effect.
[
5
]
: 905
16 May – King Baudouin arrives in
Belgian Congo
for a royal tour of the colony.
[
6
]
[
7
]
[
8
]
13 June – Education bill passes in
lower house
.
[
2
]
10 July – Over a quarter of a million demonstrate in Brussels against Socialist–Liberal education policy.
[
2
]
[
9
]
21 July – Education bill passes in
senate
.
[
2
]
5 November – Convention establishing the Interparliamentary Consultative Council of the
Benelux
.
[
5
]
: 978
Publications
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]
Comics
Edgar P. Jacobs
,
Le Mystère de la Grande Pyramide, Tome 2
(the fifth comic book in the
Blake and Mortimer
series)
Art and architecture
[
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]
Paintings
René Magritte
,
The Mysteries of the Horizon
Films
André Cauvin
(dir.),
Bwana Kitoko
Ytzen Brusse
(dir.),
Introducing Belgium
[The Atlantic Community Series].
[
10
]
Births
[
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]
16 January –
Martin De Prycker
, engineer
16 March –
Linda Lepomme
, singer
26 April –
Frieda Van Themsche
, politician
24 May –
Philippe Lafontaine
, singer
8 June –
Philippe Vlerick
, businessman
3 July –
Maria Herrijgers
, cyclist
6 July –
Johan Vande Lanotte
, politician
9 July –
Alexandra Colen
, politician
24 July –
Joseph Reynaerts
, singer (died 2020)
5 August –
Daniel Ost
, gardener
18 August –
André Flahaut
, politician
27 August –
Kristien Hemmerechts
, writer
29 August –
Frank Hoste
, cyclist
10 September –
Jean-Pierre Vande Velde
, footballer
2 October –
Michel Wintacq
, footballer
13 October –
Patrick Dewael
, politician
18 October –
Jean-Pierre Hautier
, television presenter (died 2012)
21 October –
Frank Vandenbroucke
, politician
3 November –
Michel Renquin
, footballer
27 November –
Alain De Roo
, cyclist
4 December –
Jean-Philippe Vandenbrande
, cyclist
6 December –
Piet Vanthemsche
, veterinary surgeon
18 December –
André Geerts
, comics creator (died 2010)
Deaths
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]
24 January –
Charles Deruyter
(born 1890), cyclist
13 February –
Raoul Henkart
(born 1907), fencer
19 February –
Marcel Dubois
(born 1886), wrestler
21 February –
Emmanuel Janssen
(born 1879), industrialist
8 March –
Princess Clémentine of Belgium
(born 1872)
21 March –
Octave Dierckx
(born 1882), politician
16 April –
Robert, 7th Duke d'Ursel
(born 1873), politician
7 June –
Alfred Bastien
(born 1873), war artist
5 July –
Gustave Magnel
(born 1889), engineer
3 August –
Fernand Faniard
(born 1894), opera singer
9 August –
Henri Verhavert
(born 1874), gymnast
3 September –
Léon Halkin
(born 1872), historian
16 October –
Charles Cambier
(born 1884), footballer
19 October –
Eugène Joseph Delporte
(born 1882), astronomer
13 November –
Jacques Feyerick
(born 1874), athlete
22 December –
Jules-Émile Verschaffelt
(born 1870), physicist
References
[
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]
^
"Baudouin I, king of Belgium"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
28 March
2019
.
^
a
b
c
d
Lize Haagdorens,
De mobilisatie van de katholieke zuil in de schoolstrijd tijdens het eerste jaar van de regering Van Acker (mei 1954–juli 1955)
,
Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis
, 15:1-2 (1984), pp. 3-70.
^
"40 Hurt in Brussels Riots (1955)"
.
youtube.com
.
British Pathé
. 13 April 2013.
^
"About CBTI-BKVT"
.
^
a
b
H.F. van Panhuys, L.J. Brinkhorst, and H.H. Maas (eds.),
International Organisation and Integration
(Deventer and Leyden, 1968)
^
Leonard Ingalls (17 May 1955).
"Congo Welcomes Belgian Monarch"
.
New York Times
.
^
"King Baudouin Leaves For Belgian Congo (1955)"
.
youtube.com
.
British Pathé
. 13 April 2014.
^
"King Baudouin in the Belgian Congo (1955)"
.
youtube.com
.
British Movietone
. 21 July 2015.
^
"Brussels: Catholics Demonstrate (1955)"
.
youtube.com
.
British Pathé
. 13 April 2013.
^
"Introducing Belgium [The Atlantic Community Series - NATO Documentaries, 1955]"
.
YouTube
. NATO History. 9 May 2019.
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